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Child's Play: Multi-Sensory Histories of Children and Childhood in Japan
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2017
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University of California Press
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Few things make Japanese adults feel quite as anxious today as the phenomenon called the “child crisis.” Various media teem with intense debates about bullying in schools, child poverty, child suicides, violent crimes committed by children, the rise of socially withdrawn youngsters, and forceful moves by the government to introduce a more conservative educational curriculum. These issues have propelled Japan into the center of a set of global conversations about the nature of children and how to raise them. Engaging both the history of children and childhood and the history of emotions, contributors to this volume track Japanese childhood through a number of historical scenarios. Such explorations—some from Japan’s early-modern past—are revealed through letters, diaries, memoirs, family and household records, and religious polemics about promising, rambunctious, sickly, happy, and dutiful youngsters.
Few things make Japanese adults feel quite as anxious today as the phenomenon called the “child crisis.” Various media teem with intense debates about bullying in schools, child poverty, child suicides, violent crimes committed by children, the rise of socially withdrawn youngsters, and forceful moves by the government to introduce a more conservative educational curriculum. These issues have propelled Japan into the center of a set of global conversations about the nature of children and how to raise them. Engaging both the history of children and childhood and the history of emotions, contributors to this volume track Japanese childhood through a number of historical scenarios. Such explorations—some from Japan’s early-modern past—are revealed through letters, diaries, memoirs, family and household records, and religious polemics about promising, rambunctious, sickly, happy, and dutiful youngsters.
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pp. 17-40

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View 1. Nasty Boys or Obedient Children?: Childhood and Relative Autonomy in Medieval Japanese Monasteries
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pp. 60-79

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View 3. For the Love of Children: Practice, Affect, and Subjectivities in Hirata Atsutane's Household
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pp. 83-101

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View 4. Consumer Consumption for Children: Conceptions of Childhood in the Work of Taishō-Period Designers
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pp. 102-120
pp. 121-137

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View 6. Children and the Founding of Manchukuo: The Young Girl Ambassadors as Promoters of Friendship
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pp. 141-159

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View 7. Reversing the Gaze: The Construction of Adulthood in the Wartime Diaries of Japanese Children and Youth
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pp. 205-224

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View 10. From Grade Schooler to Great Star: Childhood Development and the Golden Age in the World of Japanese Soccer
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pp. 225-242
pp. 243-263

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View 12. Food, Affect, and Experiments in Care: Constituting a Household-like Child Welfare Institution in Japan
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ISBN | 9780520968844 |
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Related ISBN(s) | 9780520296275 |
DOI | 10.1353/book.63407![]() |
MARC Record | Download |
OCLC | 1048153623 |
Pages | 286 |
Launched on MUSE | 2019-02-24 |
Language | English |
Open Access | Yes |
Creative Commons | CC-BY |